The effect of content moderation on online and offline hate (VoxEU CEPR)
“Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter has reignited discussions about which content, if any, social media platforms should moderate. Empirical…
Counter-terror strategy to be updated to tackle online hate (PublicTechnology)
“The UK’s long-standing counter-terrorism strategy is to be reviewed and updated to better tackle threats arising from ‘hateful online ideologies’,…
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy (nature human behaviour)
“We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence (N = 496 articles) on the link between digital media use and…
Liberty and Hate Speech: Need to Legislate on Grey Areas (NewsClick)
“Under the garb of curbing hate speech, countries have clamped down on media ecosystems. Laws with nefarious designs demonstrate the…
Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech (ADI/MSI-DIS) Background document (Council of Europe)
“To prepare a draft recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to member States on a comprehensive approach to addressing hate…
Rapid action needed on online hate, say Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan (The Guardian)
“Ministers need to push through legislative efforts to clamp down on online hate, Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan have argued,…
Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond: “We can’t trust Big Tech to abide by its own rules” (APC)
“Technology companies now do offer channels for users to flag hate speech. However, Martins of APC noted that these remain…
Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond (APC)
“At that time, radio was still a powerful tool of mass communication and played a significant role in the dissemination…
Supreme Court slams TV channels for unregulated hate speech (Asianet News, India)
“In 2017, the Law Commission had submitted a report recommending specific laws. ‘Hate speech has not been defined in any…
Conscious or Unconscious: The Intention of Hate Speech in Cyberworld—A Conceptual Paper (MDPI)
Results revealed that most of the previous studies on hate speech focused on the field of computer science but rarely…
Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment (scite_)
Despite their growing popularity, there is scant experimental evidence on the effectiveness and design of counterspeech strategies (in the public…
New approaches to combatting online hate speech (Gilbert & Tobin Law)
On 1 July 2022, the Alan Turing Institute (Institute) launched a new research project seeking to better understand and utilise…